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colloque

colloque verb: to hold colloquy; to converse. Also the obsolete form of colloquy.

Verb

colloque (third-person singular simple present colloques, present participle colloquing, simple past and past participle colloqued)

  1. (intransitive) To hold colloquy; to converse.

Also used as

colloque is also the obsolete form of colloquy.

Forms of colloque

Verb
third-person singular presentcolloques
present participlecolloquing
past participlecolloqued
pastcolloqued
Noun
pluralcolloques

Origin of colloque

Apparently from Latin colloquī.

From French colloque, from Latin colloquium. Attested once in Middle English (?1482) as colloke (“a place for conversation”).

Questions about colloque

What does colloque mean?
Colloque means to hold colloquy; to converse.
What part of speech is colloque?
Colloque is a verb.
What is the past tense of colloque?
The past tense of colloque is colloqued.

Words near colloque in the dictionary

  1. Collopy
  2. Collopys
  3. colloq
  4. colloq.
  5. colloqs
  6. colloque
  7. colloqued
  8. colloquent
  9. colloquents
  10. colloques
  11. colloquia

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